So, make me feel better. Do you ever have a fruit fly issue in your kitchen?

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I love this: “See the little graveyard at the bottom?” ROFL! In all seriousness, this tip is the BEST thing to get rid of fruit flies. It really works. In fact, it was the ONLY thing that worked when we got back from a week’s vacation to find we’d forgotten to empty the compost pail. Ahem.Amy´s last blog post ..Yay for July

Oh goodness! I can totally sympathize with you. We get our veggies from a CSA and I regularly have fruit flies and friends buzzing around – very annoying. I will have to try this. Now, do you have anything that takes care of the fruit flies’ friends who come to join the party – caterpillars, beetles, and/or lizards? Julie @ Pary Moppins´s last blog post ..What’s Cooking?

Before we moved into our current home, we had a summer of fruit flies. My husband was convinced that it was from cantelope. Though we ALWAYS had bananas laying around. I really can’t remember how we ended up getting rid of them, though I do recall my husband putting some cantelope in a bowl and covering it with plastic wrap. I think he put some holes in the wrap so the fruit flies could get in. They were supposed to be trapped in there once they got in, but would you believe that the one we saw in there, escaped! So far we haven’t had any trouble at our current house. We still have plenty of bananas on the counter and had some cantelope recently too.

Last year I had at least one week that was terrible with fruit flies. I tried the apple cider vinegar trap but they weren’t having it. They wanted to hang around the windows in the kitchen and the patio door in the living room. I resorted to spraying them with Windex and cleaning them up with paper towel. They didn’t last after that and I had clean glass!

For years I thought we were the only ones with a fruit fly problem. I went to others’ homes and never saw one fruit fly. This is a great tip I will definitely be using. Thank you!Lynda´s last blog post ..Women of Noble Character Link Up

Thanks so much for this tip! We have fruit flies all summer long! It is truly annonying. Last year I did one that required saran wrap and a bowl, this year I decided it was too much trouble, suffering is easier. But this tip sounds very easy and the idea of burying these fruit flies is as appealing to me as my fruit is to them.

Thank you! I will definitely try this. I’ve been using the fly ribbon (hanging right above our sink) which inevitably gets in my hair (LOL), gets attacked by the cat, or just doesn’t seem to get them all! (And looks ugly!) Thanks again!